Sanders Bohlke

So last week I was watching the Teen Mom finale on DV-R and found myself rewinding the show 5 times to figure out the lyrics to this beautiful song so that I could find the artist. After several failed google attempts, I resorted to MTV.com to find the artist and there he was: Sanders Bohlke.

Hopefully you will love this song as much as I: "Til My Days Are Through"

I'm In Australia!

I forgot to mention- I'm in Australia until June.
Australia kind of lacks much (cheap) access to this thing called internet. So MuseSicklyChallenged will be on hold until I return.

The good news: I've found a lot of good new music.

Corinne Bailey Rae Releases Her Sophomore Album, The Sea

After the tragic death of her husband and a four-year musical hiatus, Corinne Bailey Rae returns with her long-awaited sophomore album, The Sea.

A few songs on The Sea were composed prior to Jason Rae's death, but Corinne Bailey Rae admits that of the songs take on a different meaning after his passing.

To be honest, I was a little disappointed with Bailey Rae's follow-up to her self-titled debut album. After her hiatus, I expected intimate ballads of love and loss but instead her emotional state seemed rather opaque and mysterious. A bit schizophrenic, the album jumps from eerie rock-ballads to heart-wrenching melodies about death. The charming vulnerability that appeared on her debut album is perhaps more haunting on The Sea.

While I would have preferred to hear more personal and intimate artistry on The Sea, I'm not sure that it's fair to judge the album by this short-coming, alone.

The musicality of the The Sea is quite different from Corinne's debut release. More rock-influenced and at times mystical, The Sea presents a new side of Corinne Bailey Rae

Tracks to hear:

• Closer
• I Would Like to Call It Beauty
• The Sea
• Little Wing

Buy this album if you like: Yael Naim

Listen to Corinne talk about her new album